Fillets of Salmon à la Vénitienne

Ingredients

• a four-pound tail-piece of salmon
• salt
• white pepper
• half a pint of white wine
• one ounce of flour
• two ounces of butter

Method

1. 1

   Prepare fillets, season, and moisten with wine.

2. 2

   Cover with buttered paper and cook in the oven, basting frequently.

3. 3

   Serve garnished with fried bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two oonces of butter. Lei it come to a boil, then cover and fflmmer for one-half hour. Drain the fish and remove the bunch of parslej. Thicken the liquid with one ounce of flour which has been cooked in butter. Boll ten minutes, then mix with the yolks of four eggs and some chopped parsley. Spread a thin layer of thick mashed potatoes in an ovai baking dish, well buttered. Remove the bone and skin f rom the steaks and place them one overlapping the other on the potatoes. Fili with more potatoes, smooth nicely, and pour the sauce over ali. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and little pieces of butter over the top. Bake until a light brown, in a moderate oven, about twenty minutes. Serve in the baking dish. FiUets of Salmon à la Vénitienne Take the fiUets from a four-pound tail-piece of salmon. Remove the skin and cut each one in four long pieces. Flatten and trim evenly. Fasten fine strips of larding pork on one side, season with salt, white pepper, and a little lemon juice, and place the larded side up in a buttered pan. Moisten with half a pint of white wine, and cover with a sheet of buttered paper with a small hole in the centre. The steam must bave vent, else the surface will not glaze. Cook in the oven about forty minutes, basting frequently with the liquid in order to have the glaze a nice color. Drain and dish the fiUets in a cirde with alternate heart-shaped slices of bread fried in but- ter. Thicken two ladlefuls of broth with one ounce of flour

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